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Describe what the Indian removal policies were about.

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The Indian Removal policies were a series of government laws enacted in the 19th century that allowed the United States government to forcibly remove Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the east of the United States and relocate them to areas west of the Mississippi River. It was a way of expanding the white settler population in the west and was a major contributing factor to what is now known as the Trail of Tears.